1983 Great Taste Coffee Makers season

1983 Great Taste Coffee Makers Jimmy MarianoBaby Dalupan All Filipino Conference 8 5 3rd Semifinals Reinforced Conference 17 9 2nd Finals (lost to Crispa) Open Conference 13 11 2nd Finals (lost to Crispa) CFC Corporation 1982 1984 The 1983 Great Taste Coffee Makers season was the 9th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Transactions Players AddedSignedFormer teamRicardo Brown Rookie, the first Fil-American to play in the PBAOff-seasonN/ABogs AdornadoU-Tex (disbanded)Alejo AlolorGalerie DominiqueBernardo CarpioCrispa Summary Three-time MVP Bogs Adornado and the former Houston Rockets draftee and naturalized Filipino Ricardo Brown was signed by Great Taste (formerly N-Rich) in a pair of player deals. In their maiden appearance in the All-Filipino Conference, Adornado and Brown combined for identical outputs of 22 points each in helping Great Taste escape with a 93–92 opening day win over San Miguel Beer. The Discoverers finished second behind Crispa in the one-round eliminations. They were denied of a finals berth by Gilbey's and Crispa in the round-robin semifinals among four teams. Last year's best import awardee Norman Black of San Miguel Beermen has moved to Great Taste in the second offing of the season. Black's entry and playing alongside Adornado and Brown has finally shed the Coffee Makers' image as a second division club and it has been a long time coming for Great Taste in their first entry to the finals after eight seasons. They beat Gilbey's Gin in the playoff for the right to faced Crispa Redmanizers in the Reinforced Filipino championship. Going up against Crispa's prolific import Billy Ray Bates, the Coffee Makers led the best-of-five title series, two games to one and a win away from their first-ever PBA crown. The Redmanizers, however, battled back to win the last two games by big margins and take home their second championship of the season.http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/sports/content/217851/the-quick-brown-fox-s-untold-stories-part-ii-triple-b-and-the-great-taste-dynasty/story/ The Quick Brown Fox's untold stories: Part II GMA Network News 1983 PBA Reinforced Filipino Conference finals Norman Black teamed up with Charles Thompson in Great Taste' first two games in the Open Conference. Thompson had problems fitting into Great Taste' play patterns and was replaced by Dawan Scott. Great Taste makes it to the semifinals outright along with Crispa just like in the previous conference. In the semifinal round, the Coffee Makers were in danger of being booted out from the finals race going into their last two assignments, Great Taste had to beat Gilbey's and Crispa by a margin of three points to forge a four-way deadlock and two knockout games to determined the finalist.http://pbarecordsoddities.blogspot.com/2016/03/pba-boxscores-october-november-1983.html Great Taste Coffee conquers Crispa Redmanizers, forges first-ever four-way deadlock On November 26, Great Taste defeated Gilbey's Gin and Crispa prevailed over San Miguel Beer in the second game to set-up a finals rematch for the Open Conference crown. The Crispa Redmanizers surprisingly had an easier time winning over the Coffee Makers this time, scoring a 3–0 sweep to win their second PBA Grandslam. 1983 PBA Open Conference finals Occurrences During the Open Conference, the Coffee Makers were on top of the standings when in their game against Galerie Dominique in the second round of eliminations, coach Jimmy Mariano was quoted as saying "We didn't intend to win", which was carried out by the media as an admission of deliberately losing the game. Mariano was subsequently sacked from his job, and former Crispa coach Baby Dalupan, who was hired as team consultant during the second conference, took over to replace Mariano beginning the semifinal round.http://www.interbasket.net/forums/album.php?albumid=142&attachmentid=9946 Exit Mariano, Enter Dalupan Interbasket.net Won-loss records vs opponents Team Win Loss 1st (All-Filipino) 2nd (Reinforced) 3rd (Open) Crispa 5 13 0–2 2–7 3–4 Galerie Dominique 4 1 1-0 2-0 1-1 Gilbey's Gin 10 2 1-1 5-0 4–1 San Miguel 4 3 1-0 2-0 1–3 Tanduay 6 1 1-0 3-1 2–0 Toyota 5 4 3-2 1-1 1-1 Manhattan/Sunkist/Winston 4 1 1-0 2-0 1-1Total 38 25 8-5 17-9 13-11 Awards Ricardo Brown was named the season's Rookie of the Year (ROY). William "Bogs" Adornado and Ricardo Brown made it to the Mythical Five selection. Great Taste import Norman Black became the league's first recipient of the Award "Mr.100%". Roster n Great Taste Coffee #f47b34 #000000 #FFFF99 black 1 Manny Victorino FC 6 5 200 JRU PHI 2 Alejo Alolor GF 6 1 160 Visayas PHI 3 Jaime Manansala GF 5 11 160 UE PHI 6 Joel Banal FC 6 4 163 Mapua PHI 8 Noel Guzman G 5 10 165 San Beda PHI 10 Eduardo Mendoza basketball G 6 0 165 Visayas PHI 11 Florendo Ritualo C 6 3 190 Baguio PHI 16 Leonardo Paguntalan G 6 1 182 WIT PHI 22 Filomeno Gulfin F 6 2 170 Southwestern University (Philippines) PHI 23 Ricardo Brown basketball G 6 0 175 Pepperdine USA 29 Bernardo Carpio basketball F 6 3 188 Ateneo PHI 33 Bogs Adornado GF 6 1 175 UST PHI 66 Joey Marquez F 6 2 175 Angeles PHI 24 Norman Black F 6 5 190 Saint Joseph's USA I 18 Charles Thompson basketball F 6 7 235 USA I 7 Dawan Scott C 6 9 230 Seton Hall USA I PHI Jimmy Mariano PHI Baby Dalupan PHI Nap Flores (Trainer) (I) Import Team Manager: Ignacio Gotao Additions Player Signed Former team Jaime Manansala May 1983 YCO-Tanduay References External links Great Taste team photo Category:Great Taste Coffee Makers seasons Great